The National Union of Bank Employees (NUBE) today alleged that expelled office bearers have influenced commercial banks to create industrial disharmony and cripple the union under the recently elected leaders.

In a statement released to the media during the lunch break picket at the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Corporation (HSBC) headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, NUBE deputy president Abdul Zaman Abdullah claimed that the expelled office bearers whose memberships have also been suspended are "singing the same tune" with the Malayan Commercial Banks Associations (MCBA).

The picket at Lebuh Ampang today saw some 500 bank employees from all over the city.